WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT AFRICAN NAMES?
Many Africans answer foreign names they do not know their meanings. You might wonder why all my three names are completely African. Does it imply I am not a Christian? At birth I was baptized in the Catholic Church and then a European name was given to me, when I grew up and realized how significant our African names are to us in the assertion of our identity as Africans, I dropped the foreign names I had. For us Africans, names are a part of our identity. The identity here should not be taken to mean identification marks but as in whom we are. A name tells a lot about the person who bears it. This means that a name carries along side with it a personality, an identity and in fact, a destiny. This is why within the African society much care is taken in naming a child. Africans do not just name their children carelessly but take time to study the situation and prevailing circumstances of the time before they give a name to a child. There is the belief that names carry along with them th
